Pre-production

When thinking about the processes taken before a magazine is created, I thought of several categories and thought about what the category would include. These are some of the things I thought of:

Finance

One of the first things I considered was the funding needed and which outgoings would occur during production. Some of the things I thought of were the costs of printing the magazine each month. I also thought about the costs such as rent of the office we would use to design and print the magazine and staff that would be needed to help in the processes taken. I also thought about equipment such as printers and computers which would be used in production.

Personnel

After thinking about finance I thought about what kind of people I would need to help in the production of the magazine. I came up with many people that I would need such as journalists, photographers, editors and a publisher. All of these factors would be key to make magazine production work.

Time

The next step after thinking about these things was time. I had to come up with a deadline for the magazine to be finished so that the magazine would not over run production date. This meant that I would have to plan out every step of production and make a plan on which steps are more important to get finished first.

Content

I then thought about what content would be in my magazine such as pictures, copy and input from contributors such as bands and artists (for this specific genre of magazine).